Here are 12 hospital and health system executive compensation stories from the past month, beginning with stories that broke most recently.
Compensation Issues
The use, or misuse, of Current Procedural Terminology code modifiers in physician compensation plans could lead to unintended cash compensation figures, according to an article from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.
Over the past 12 months, hospitals and health systems have provided a 2.3 percent average merit and market increase to staff-level nurses, and the average national hiring bonus for registered nurses was $3,000, according to Integrated Healthcare Strategies' 2012 National…
The average salaries of neurologists fell in 2011 from 2010, as neurologist compensation continues to stay toward the bottom of all physician salaries, according to Medscape's Neurologist Compensation Report: 2012 Results.
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In 2011, Integrated Healthcare Strategies released its Children's Hospitals Executive Compensation Survey, which highlighted pay data from 35 children's hospitals across the country.
Hospital-employed physicians currently represent roughly half of the physician market, and their compensation levels are highly monitored across the healthcare spectrum.
Staffing company Jackson Healthcare's recent survey of several thousand physicians nationwide reveals that 36 percent of them are unable to accept new Medicaid patients due to declining reimbursements.
Executive compensation in the healthcare sector increased 7.8 percent in 2011 — more than any other sector tracked in The Wall Street Journal / Hay Group 2011 CEO Compensation Study.
Members from the Service Employees International Union — United Healthcare Workers East protested outside of Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates' annual shareholders meeting Tuesday, arguing the for-profit hospital operator's executive compensation and profit structure overshadowed patient care, according to a…